Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Steven Weinberg (American Physicist)

Steven Weinberg (1933–2021) was an American theoretical physicist. He won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the unification of electromagnetic interactions and the weak forces within the nucleus of an atom.

Born in New York City, Weinberg was educated at Cornell and Princeton universities and taught at Columbia and Berkeley, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT,) Harvard, and the University of Texas-Austin.

In 1967, Weinberg unified the concepts of electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces. He predicted a new interaction due to ‘neutral currents,’ whereby a chargeless particle is exchanged, giving rise to a force between particles. This was duly observed in 1973, providing vital support to the theory (now called the Weinberg-Salam theory.) The work was independently developed by Weinberg and Abdus Salam and subsequently extended by Sheldon Glashow, and all three shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics. The combined theory was precisely tested by experiments at the European nuclear research center, CERN (Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire,) in Geneva.

Weinberg’s publications include The First Three Minutes (1977,) a trilogy The Quantum Theory of Fields (1995, 1996, and 2000,) and Glory and Terror—The Growing Nuclear Danger (2004.)

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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
Steven Weinberg
Topics: Science, Scientists

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
Steven Weinberg
Topics: Experts, Professionalism

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg
Topics: Atheism, Religion

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
Steven Weinberg
Topics: The Universe, Universe

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